Welcome again to another edition of the LFWIR. Following on the coat tails of last week.
A compilation of various articles from our contributors, readers and associates. I’m going to be taking a bit more time as well through this weeks review to promote activities and causes of some of our collaborators, contributors and viewers/readers. Here we go:
1/Ex CIA agent explains how to delete the elite!
An interesting presentation from former CIA agent, Robert D.Steele , gotta say this fella is spot on and provides legitimate solutions to the big problems we all find ourselves in with the current system.
Robert is also an activist and runs a group called OSS.Net as an advocate for open source intelligence. Now before anyone starts in about “controlled opposition”, Robert is the real deal. The old “once CIA always CIA” was coined by someone who was never in. It’s also a different world these days and Robert didn’t go running off to some other country. He stood and fought for his country against the corruption and rot he experienced first hand.
2/ New Facebook App will listen to your conversations
What the fuck?! Really? Quote from SomeofUs.org:
“Facebook just announced a new feature to its app, which will let it listen to our conversations and surroundings through our own phones’ microphone. Talk about a Big Brother move.
Facebook says the feature will be used for harmless things, like identifying the song or TV show playing in the background, but by using the phone’s microphone every time you write a status update, it has the ability to listen to everything.
Not only is this move just downright creepy, it’s also a massive threat to our privacy. The feature is opt-in, but many won’t even read the warnings. If we act now, we can stop Facebook in its tracks before it has a chance to release the feature.” -end quote.
Bad enough folks were being spied on through shitty 3rd part aps but this is a whole new level that if the government did it (some of my compatriots would say they’ve been doing it for a long time) people would take to the streets. However because it’s a private company….. I dunno. I seem to remember something called wire fraud or illegal wire tapping comes to mind. But the Devil is in the fine print. So anyone still on the “Ive got nothing to hide” bandwagon?I was kind of having a deja-vu seeing the cat in the Matrix moment writing this part. Seems like we’ve been here before….a few times…..
3/ SURVIVAL!! SHTF! TEOTWAWKI!!!
Always lots of good stuff out there on bug out bags and stashing firearms, secret locations or escaping the city during a disaster. But not a whole lot about long term survival. To be fair though Jack Spirko is a huge proponent of permaculture. Ok now that I’ve pimped that I would like to look at long term solutions for post whatever (insert scenario here). Probably the biggest problem I can identify is what about electricity? Regardless if it’s a zombie, war, famine, societal/financial collapse, or EMP. In any or most of these scenarios electricity will eventually become a dream. Even if you have an off the grid lifestyle already with solar and wind, eventually at some point that will break down too.
Turns out those folks who run historical reenactments, pioneer villages and the like have the real long term solutions ( and the Amish). Gonna party like its 1799! Yup cuz until the Steampunks start getting things going ala Victorian Era that’s how its going to be post Apocalypse.
One bold adventurer has stepped up to show us the way forward. Her name is Joanna Rickert Hall, historian and maker of neat stuff (like cheese!). Or as she would describe herself:
“Cultural Historian-Researcher, Blogger,Educator of Waterloo Region Early Settlement History & Folk Medicine esp of Pennsylvania German & Black Settlers.”
Needless to say she knows what she’s doing. Her blog is called 1820 Log Schoolhouse. Just some of the many subjects she covers (and remember this is all without electricity!) is making cheese (a world without cheese is not really a good one is it?) and keeping things cold.
Lots of great information and I would recommend anyone interested in survivalist studies to check out her blog or follow on Twitter @jrickerthall
Now hows this for “off the grid eh?”
Thanks for tuning in, Evil von Scarry